Boston’s Irish community rows in behind Katie’s Born to Run campaign
She never expected the momentum of her Born to Run campaign to move from The Saturday Night show to Boston backstreets where Irish emigrants have been working hard to raise the €300,000 needed to secure her a set of bionic arms.
But the embrace of ‘three marathons in three countries in three weeks’ has widened and today, O’Halloran, who was born with no arms and a deformed right leg, will wait anxiously at the finish line for neighbour Michael Cloherty who has ground out the hard yards in this campaign. Their journey has been a hopscotch of road miles and air miles from Connemara to London and now Boston where she has found significant support within the emigrant community and recently elected mayor Marty Walsh.
